Secret Life of Walter Mitty- James Thurber ***************************************************************** By P.Baburaj‚ Senior Lecturer‚ Dept. of English‚ Sherubtse college‚ Bhutan Author of: Language and writing‚ DSB Publication Thimphu Communicative English‚ P. K. Books‚ Calicut A perception on Literary Criticism‚ P.K. Books‚ Calicut ******************************************************************* -A popular American writer‚ humourist and cartoonist. -A classical story. -Traditional realistic
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studies show the truth: hope‚ dreams‚ and goals are the psychological vehicles driving success. [B] In Of Mice and Men‚ the dream is to leave the life of work and travel behind and live on a ranch‚ in War Dance‚ the goal is to do well at the national music competition‚ and in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ Walter Mitty hopes for a more interesting life in a series of daydreams‚ to ultimately find that he has been living the true daydream. [C] Hope‚ dreams‚ and goals allowed the people portrayed
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which is also emphasized in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ “Young Goodman Brown”‚ and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Walter Mitty’s‚ Goodman Brown’s‚ and the Misfit’s behaviors all raise the question: how much is identity shaped by other’s opinions versus by our own? Walter Mitty expresses the side of shaping his own identity in order to go against
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Meaning of life The movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” encourages and gives the viewers hope. Hope to find themselves in adventures and to explore the true meaning of what it is to be alive. In the movie‚ Walter Mitty the main character is struck that he has never actually explored the world‚ like (the magazine he prints the photos for‚ they send him pictures from the world and he puts them in the magazine and the whole world sees the beauty.) his job does‚ because he works for the magazine
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reading the book‚ “Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and watching the movie‚ it is made clear that Walter Mitty is not just any ordinary man. In both the short story and the movie‚ it seems Walter Mitty is completely lost. Mitty has trouble focusing on what is in front of him‚ instead he daydreams about an exciting life‚ that he does not have. The book and movie both show how Mitty has relationship issues‚ how his daily routine is absolutely boring and how he daydreams about the exciting life he actually wants
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The Function of Fantasies in Walter Mitty Walter Mitty is an irresponsible‚ incapable‚ and a somewhat plain person. Consequently‚ his fantasies allow him to feel the opposite of reality: capable‚ reliable‚ and exciting. In one fantasy he is a world renowned doctor. In a second fantasy he is a commander on a ship. Another fantasy for Walter Mitty is when he sees himself as a criminal being tried for murder. Finally‚ one of his fantasies is when he is
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Dorothy Rena Fong NBE3U1-01 Ms. Turczyniak Monday September 26‚ 2011 Critical Response- Walter Mitty Reflection People have the unique ability to focus on things the mind has never seen or experienced directly. People can imagine scenarios that might never actually occur. Naturally‚ human beings use a lot of time imagining infinite possibilities‚ spending nearly half of the waking hours daydreaming about anything that comes to mind. Imagination serves as an outlet to escape reality for a while
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opinion‚ I love funny/action movies like “The Secret life of Walter Mitty”‚ about a young man and everywhere he goes‚ he daydreams of a girl name Cheryl Melhoff . One day Walter was pasting around in New York. He had received a phone call from a random man on the phone‚ but surprisingly it was Todd from E-harmony. Todd was helping Walter with his profile and explaining how he could send a wink to Cheryl to capture her attention. After a while Walter imagined that he smelled burning fire in the building
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Walter Mitty is initially a character with a very regular routine‚ not participating in much activity out of work having not done or “been anywhere noteworthy or mentionable” a fact confirmed by his empty travel journal. He lives a routine lifestyle‚ striving to maintain his record of “no mistakes.” Another aspect of his character is his fearful nature: not even considering the prospect of asking his coworker Cheryl out on a date‚ being only think to himself “I can’t.” To escape his reality‚ Walter
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differences of Walter Mitty and his mysterious other self is that they are totally different people. How I would explain this is when Walter Mitty is having his daydreams he wants to be someone else then his regular self. He wants to be a totally different person then his regular self. He doesn’t want to be weak. Then in one of his day dreams he is a commander readying the lieutenant to take off in a “hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane” (188). However in reality‚ Walter Mitty is just a man
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